Press Releases
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released a report entitled One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: A Review of U.S.-Europe Cooperation on China. This report is a follow-up to Risch’s 2020 report in which he laid out a number of key areas where the United States should specifically collaborate with […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) led 11 colleagues in introducing the Countering Hate Against Israel by Federal Contractors Act, which would prohibit the federal government from contracting with entities who boycott the State of Israel. Idaho and 36 other states have passed laws or regulations opposing the boycott, divestment, or sanction (BDS) of Israel. “Antisemitism has no […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) today sent a letter to U.S. Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe Jr. demanding answers to the agency’s failure to prevent an assassination attempt on President Donald Trump despite knowledge of the perpetrator’s suspicious and threatening behavior. “When questioned about this threat to President Trump and the Secret Service’s […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch, senior member and former chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, announced the selection of Millhollow in Rexburg as the Idaho Small Business of the Month for July 2024. Millhollow will be recognized for its contribution to Idaho in the Congressional Record of the U.S. Senate. “In 1982, […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) introduced legislation to prevent the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) electronic public comment system from being sabotaged by foreign adversaries and Artificial Intelligence (AI) bots. Currently, the federal government’s online comment system allows comments from individuals, organizations, or anonymous users, with no safeguards to prevent […]
WASHINGTON— U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo (both R-Idaho) led Senate colleagues in sending a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Thomas Vilsack expressing concern about the potential for potato wart to spread from potato imports originating on Canada’s Prince Edward Island (PEI) to U.S. farms and production facilities and urging the implementation of additional […]
Several recent reports reveal non-citizens registering to vote amid record number of illegal border crossings ?WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), and Bill Hagerty (R-TN) led their colleagues in demanding answers from U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) efforts to prevent aliens from registering to vote in […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on the announcement of a preliminary agreement between the United States and Canada on the Columbia River Treaty. “For 60 years, the Columbia River Treaty has provided coordinated flood control for the Pacific Northwest, in turn […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo (both R-Idaho) joined Senator Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) in introducing the Firearms Interstate Commerce Reform Act (FICRA) to modernize and streamline the legal framework governing interstate firearms transactions. Federal regulations prohibit the sale or delivery of any firearm to an individual who does not reside in the state in which […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) led 18 of their colleagues in urging Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Denis McDonough to quickly correct policy initiatives that are making it harder for veterans to receive care. In 2018, Congress passed the MISSION Act, which increased access to care for veterans by expanding […]